My Siamese cat “Natacha†died last month. I would like to share the sad story of her death and pass my experience to cat lovers. Since then I still canâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t get over it as I am still confused on what was the cause of her death.
I am living in a country on which the vet practicing & experience are focusing manly on treating farm animals. Pets are not lucky to have specialists.
Natacha started getting ill on May 2001. She had a frothy discharge coming out of her mouth. The vet diagnosed it as tonsillitis and gave her a course of antibiotic for 3 days.
On the third day because she was anorexic I asked him to give her B complex shot. She had recovered and got well.
One and a half month later the same symptoms reappeared again. They gave her another course of 3 days antibiotic but she had not responded to the treatment very well. She was suffering from short & fast breathing and frequent salivation. However she had not lost her appetite and her body temperature was with in the normal range. She appeared to be normal occasionally but listless.
After one month the symptoms reappeared again but it was much worse. She suffered from hard breathing (choking) and worse frothy discharge. The case had been diagnosed to pneumonia.
She did not respond well to the first antibiotic what made them change it to Sulfa. She became stable for only 1 day then she rebound. Her breathing became worse and worse and I sensed a mass in her distend abdomen. Despite of all of that she had never lost her appetite and she was drinking a lot. She constipated.
An x-ray had been recommended but she did not make it as she suddenly died.
When they made autopsy they said it was a heart failure but they have not specify the exact cause??
I need to know why she had suffered from pneumonia three times in 3 months. Is it common or well-known case, or there is a specific cause? Was it really pneumonia or that was something else? She used to eat only fish and she stopped eating it when she got ill and ate meat and liver instead.
I am living in a country on which the vet practicing & experience are focusing manly on treating farm animals. Pets are not lucky to have specialists.
Natacha started getting ill on May 2001. She had a frothy discharge coming out of her mouth. The vet diagnosed it as tonsillitis and gave her a course of antibiotic for 3 days.
On the third day because she was anorexic I asked him to give her B complex shot. She had recovered and got well.
One and a half month later the same symptoms reappeared again. They gave her another course of 3 days antibiotic but she had not responded to the treatment very well. She was suffering from short & fast breathing and frequent salivation. However she had not lost her appetite and her body temperature was with in the normal range. She appeared to be normal occasionally but listless.
After one month the symptoms reappeared again but it was much worse. She suffered from hard breathing (choking) and worse frothy discharge. The case had been diagnosed to pneumonia.
She did not respond well to the first antibiotic what made them change it to Sulfa. She became stable for only 1 day then she rebound. Her breathing became worse and worse and I sensed a mass in her distend abdomen. Despite of all of that she had never lost her appetite and she was drinking a lot. She constipated.
An x-ray had been recommended but she did not make it as she suddenly died.
When they made autopsy they said it was a heart failure but they have not specify the exact cause??
I need to know why she had suffered from pneumonia three times in 3 months. Is it common or well-known case, or there is a specific cause? Was it really pneumonia or that was something else? She used to eat only fish and she stopped eating it when she got ill and ate meat and liver instead.
